At 15:47 -0700 5/3/02, John Hughes wrote: >I am setting up a PHP-mySQL login script. One key feature I need is >the ability automatically to e-mail people their password when they >forget it. > >Obviously, I can store the password without using password() and >retrieve it at any time. Is it possible to store the password using >password() and retrieve a decoded value from mySQL? > >John Hughes
According to the MySQL manual, PASSWORD() implements one-way encryption. You might want to consider ENCODE()/DECODE() instead. -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
